It is that time of the month, here is our monthly Google webmaster report, where I summarize the most important webmaster/SEO related topics over the past month. If you missed the August report, make sure to scan through that to catch up.

This month, we had some big events including signs of a big Google update over this past weekend. We also had signs of a local quality update in the local pack. Google announced they are introducing a new interstitial mobile penalty in January 2017 and also removed the mobile friendly labels this week from the mobile search results.

Google quietly announced the real time index which is their search live coverage carousel. They did more with AMP notifications in the Search Console and added schema 3.1 support.

Google redesigned the local pack and hurt search marketers by restricting the keyword planner data.

Here are the key links for this past month:

Google Algorithm:
Early Signs Of A Google Core Search Algorithm Update
No Confirmation From Google On The Friday Google Update
Google Local Pack Results Algorithm & Ranking Update
Google: Panda Roll Outs Continue But Not All Take 10 Months To Cycle

Google Penalty:
The Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Coming January 10, 2017
Poll: Should Google Build A Pass/Fail Mobile Interstitials Testing Tool?
Google: No Plans To Build A Mobile Interstitials Testing Tool
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Is At The Page Level Only
Should Google’s Interstitial Mobile Penalty Hit AdSense’s Vignette Ads
Google Confirms It Will Penalize BlogDash For Link Schemes

Google Search:
Google Search Live Coverage Carousel Pilot; Is This The Real Time Index?
Google To Drop Mobile Friendly Label But Not The Ranking Factor
The Google Mobile Friendly Label Is Now Officially Gone
Google Testing AMP For Web Pages In Live Results
Google Android Now Allows For Apps Search For Personal Content
Once Again; Google Testing Image Thumbnails In Mobile Search Results
Why Did Google Add Solitaire & Tic-Tac-Toe To Search Results?
Google Tests People Also Ask Carousel On Desktop

Google SEO/Webmaster:
Google Search Console: Preview AMP Presence Message
Google Sending Search Console Notifications To Create AMP Pages
Google Updates Reviews Markup Guidelines Disallowing Marking Up 3rd Party Reviews
Google Adds JSON-LD Breadcrumbs Support
Google Structured Data Tool Supports Schema v3.1
Google Showing AMP Errors In Desktop Search Results To Site Owner
Google: You’ll Almost Never Restore Your Rankings To Previous State After Penalty
Google Titles In Snippets Gone Awry
Google: 410 Response Codes Don’t Generally Cause Indexing Issues
Google’s John Mueller: Requiring A Followed Link For API Access Is A Paid Link
Google Doesn’t Follow Links In SVGs
Google Support Rel Canonical For PDFs
Google: Rel Canonical Not Supported For Images
Google: No Problem Having Downloadable PDFs That Match Your Web Content
Google: Sitemaps Don’t Help With Rich Snippets
Google: 30x Redirect Passes PageRank But 301s Help With Canonicalization
Google Search Analytics Data Bug Extended: July 29th – August 5th
Google: We Don’t Have Different GoogleBot User Agents For Crawling JavaScript
Google Keyword Planner Removes Valuable Data For Potential Advertisers

Google Maps/Local:
Google Local Pack Results Algorithm & Ranking Update
New Google Local Pack Design Now Live
Google My Business Insights: Search vs Maps & Direct vs Discovery Analytics
Old Google My Business Business Hour Format No Longer Supported
Google My Business Updates User Interface For Editing Business Details
Google My Business Insights Statistics Broken?
Google My Business Adds Ability To Add/Remove Owners & Managers
New Google My Business New Access Map View

Finally, there has been ongoing Google zombie discussions throughout all of August.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.